On Thursday, 21 May / 3 June 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy glorious God-crowned Sovereigns and Equal to the Apostles, Constantine and Helen. This feast was celebrated as a feast of the Throne of the Patriarchate because Constantine the Great and his mother Saint Helen established the All-holy Shrines, the Horrendous…

On Thursday the 3rd of June, the Women of the Greek Community in Perth hosted a Biggest Morning tea, raising money for the Cancer Council. The event took place at the Hall of Alexander the Great and was held in the presence of His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyaneon. The Consul for Greece in Perth,…

The faithful who attended the Parish of St Stephanos in the Sydney suburb of Hurlstone Park on Saturday morning, 5 June, experienced feelings of great spiritual joy and excitement. During the Divine Liturgy, presided over by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, two ordinations were performed; one of a priest, and one of a deacon,…

A blessed and historic day dawned on Sunday, 6 June, for the Community of St Nektarios in Wollongong, NSW; for the Greeks in the broader region; in fact, for all Greek people and the whole Greek Orthodox Church of Australia. On this day, after five decades of division, discord and spiritual darkness, the schismatic Community…

Patriarch Daniel sent on Monday consistent gifts for 280 children from the Archdiocese of Bucharest. Beneficiaries were the 40 children who receive social support at the eparchy’s “St Sophia” Day Care Center and the children of clerics who serve in rural parishes of the second and third category. “I wish to send a message of…

At a request of Ms. E. Gracheva, presenter of the Church and the World program, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk commented on the discussion held in the Church on the need to provide by law the right of unborn children.This topic was discussed in particular at the plenary session of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, along with Their Graces Bishops: Jefrem of Banja Luka, Irinej of Backa and Teodosije of Raska-Prizren, received Mr. Miroslav Lajcak, the EU Special Representative for the dialog between Belgrade and Mr. Matthew Palmer, the US Special Envoy for Western Balkans at the Patriarchal palace in Belgrade on 4 June 2021…

His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, received Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Croatia His Excellency Mr. Andrei Nesterenko in the Diocesan residence in Zagreb, on 7 June 2021. In a cordial conversation, the first since Mr. Nesterenko was appointed the representative of the Russian Federation in Croatia, the interlocutors sent mutual congratulations and expressed…

On Saturday, June 5th 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas served the Divine Liturgy and ordained to the Diaconate Mr George Tsouros at the Church of the Holy Unmercenaries in the Metropolis of ‘Nea Smyrni’ in Athens.   thyateira.org.uk